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All Who Strive To Live For Something Beyond Mere Selfish Aims Find Their Capacities For Doing Good Very Inadequate To Their Aspirations. They Do So Much Less Than They Want To Do, And So Much Less Than They, At The Outset, Expected To Do, That Their Lives, Viewed Retrospectively, Inevitably Look Like Failure.

The Existence Of Very Pious Feelings, In Conjunction With Intolerance, Cruelty, And Selfish Policy, Has Never Ceased To Surprise And Perplex Those Who Have Viewed It Calmly From A Distance. ... It Is Impossible To Exaggerate The Evil Work Theology Has Done In The World. What Destruction Of The Beautiful Monuments Of Past Ages, What Waste Of Life, What Disturbance Of Domestic And Social Happiness, What Perverted Feelings, What Blighted Hearts, Have Always Marked Its Baneful Progress!

It Is Right Noble To Fight With Wickedness And Wrong; The Mistake Is In Supposing That Spiritual Evil Can Be Overcome By Physical Means.

There Have Always Been A Large Class Of Thinkers Who Deny That The World Makes Any Progress. They Say We Move In A Circle; That Evils Are Never Conquered, But Only Change Their Forms.

The United States Is A Warning Rather Than An Example To The World.